Post by bbfever on Aug 31, 2011 13:35:28 GMT -5
heraldbulletin.com/sports/x2134993178/AHS-coach-Chad-Cook-in-critical-condition
From HeraldBulletin.com:
Anderson High School girls basketball coach Chad Cook was in critical condition Tuesday at an Indianapolis hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at his home Monday night.
According to his father, Everett, Cook collapsed in the shower at his Alexandria home Monday night. His wife, Wendy, found him lying on the floor and vomiting.
Cook told her he could not move, and she called his parents.
Ragena Cook, his mother and a former nurse, recommended the couple move immediately to an emergency room.
Cook checked in at Community Hospital about 7 p.m. Doctors there believed he might have suffered an aneurysm and sent him via ambulance to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
“When I heard that (diagnosis), I was afraid he would no longer be with us by the time I got to Indianapolis,” Everett Cook said.
Doctors in Indianapolis determined Cook had suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage — bleeding between the brain and the thin tissue that covers the brain, called the subarachnoid space — but found no immediate evidence of an aneurysm, Cook’s father said.
However, bleeding from a cerebral aneurysm is among several potential causes of a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Everett Cook said his son will remain hospitalized for two to three weeks as doctors monitor his brain.
They are hopeful the blood will break down and dissipate, and a test involving a dye injection will be performed to ascertain whether an aneurysm has occurred.
Cook was alert Tuesday, and his sense of humor was in intact.
“I thought if this is what a migraine headache is like, I have drastically underestimated migraine headaches,” Cook told his father and then laughed.
Cook graduated from Highland High School in 1995, played basketball for the Scots under Alan Darner and coached the girls basketball team there in the 2008-09 school year. A full-time teacher at Frankton High School, Cook is entering his second season as the head coach at Anderson.
Doctors told Everett Cook if the bleeding had lasted even a millisecond longer, his son would have died.
Instead, he is now optimistic about recovery.
“We like his chances,” Everett Cook said. “I know he’s got a lot of people praying for him.”
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Praying for a successful recovery.
From HeraldBulletin.com:
Anderson High School girls basketball coach Chad Cook was in critical condition Tuesday at an Indianapolis hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at his home Monday night.
According to his father, Everett, Cook collapsed in the shower at his Alexandria home Monday night. His wife, Wendy, found him lying on the floor and vomiting.
Cook told her he could not move, and she called his parents.
Ragena Cook, his mother and a former nurse, recommended the couple move immediately to an emergency room.
Cook checked in at Community Hospital about 7 p.m. Doctors there believed he might have suffered an aneurysm and sent him via ambulance to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
“When I heard that (diagnosis), I was afraid he would no longer be with us by the time I got to Indianapolis,” Everett Cook said.
Doctors in Indianapolis determined Cook had suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage — bleeding between the brain and the thin tissue that covers the brain, called the subarachnoid space — but found no immediate evidence of an aneurysm, Cook’s father said.
However, bleeding from a cerebral aneurysm is among several potential causes of a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Everett Cook said his son will remain hospitalized for two to three weeks as doctors monitor his brain.
They are hopeful the blood will break down and dissipate, and a test involving a dye injection will be performed to ascertain whether an aneurysm has occurred.
Cook was alert Tuesday, and his sense of humor was in intact.
“I thought if this is what a migraine headache is like, I have drastically underestimated migraine headaches,” Cook told his father and then laughed.
Cook graduated from Highland High School in 1995, played basketball for the Scots under Alan Darner and coached the girls basketball team there in the 2008-09 school year. A full-time teacher at Frankton High School, Cook is entering his second season as the head coach at Anderson.
Doctors told Everett Cook if the bleeding had lasted even a millisecond longer, his son would have died.
Instead, he is now optimistic about recovery.
“We like his chances,” Everett Cook said. “I know he’s got a lot of people praying for him.”
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Praying for a successful recovery.